Expired Dream Poem by Turki Amer

Expired Dream
By Turki Amer


I have an old expired dream
Beneath immortal snow is buried
And calling out

Hey you who could hear
Space is suffocating me
I long for my country

Tell my mother please
Not to send more embers
Their fire is so silent

Ash has become
Great mountains
On the back of lifetime

And the wind
Since that sand storm
Has abandoned the valley

Copyright 1997 Turki Amer
Written originally in Arabic, Published in my 'Arabian Nightmares', August 1998